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- Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. She moved to Paris, France to study at the Sorbonne. Together with her husband Pierre Curie, she discovered the elements polonium and radium. Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences: Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. She founded the Curie Institute in Paris, which remains a major research center today. She died in 1934 from aplastic anemia caused by her long-term exposure to radiation.